Employee Quotes - Page 11

• It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Choices

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• You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

  Peter Thiel

  Leadership, Important, Needs

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.95, Crown Business

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• Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

  Ian Hutchinson

  Leadership, Engagement, Privilege

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• We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

  Horst Schulze

  Educational, Competition, Climate

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• I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Cogs, Machines, Financial

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

  Anita Roddick

  Hero, Organization, Want

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• Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Important, Education System

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• In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Greed, Rewards

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• Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sleep, Class, Apples

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.148, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• "Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll."

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Tape, Credit

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• What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If you take care of your customers and you have motivated employees, everything else follows.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Xerox reaffirms commitment here". Rochester Business Journal Interview, rbj.net. August 16, 2002.

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• Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

  Jon Stewart

  Hands, Burgers, Crime

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• You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

  Bob Monkhouse

  Golf, Boss, Holes

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• The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Powerful, Reality, Quality

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

  Terry Leahy

  Innovation, Accepting, Frightened

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• I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Successful, Government, Touching

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• It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

  Jason Bateman

  Comforting, Soldier, Trying

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’". Interview with Kathy A. McDonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

  James Bovard

  Odds, Government, Numbers

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.

  Michelle Malkin

  Moving, Order, Two

  "Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 13, 2009.

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• The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

  Mark Steyn

  People, Three, Widows

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.218, Regnery Publishing

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• Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.

  Michael Barone

  Party, Unions, Pennies

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• Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.

  Martin Zwilling

  Motivation, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.

  Martin Zwilling

  Jobs, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.

  Shari Arison

  Creativity, Vision, Important

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• You can never err by treating everyone in the building with respect, thoughtfulness, and a kind word. Everyone of our employees is an essential employee. Every one of them wants to be viewed that way. And if you treat them that way, they will view you that way. They will not let you down or let you fail. They will accomplish whatever you have put in front of them.

  Colin Powell

  Views, Essentials, Want

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